The Editor is pleased to announce that Murray Seccombe (Independent Scholar) is the winner of the 2023 Gordon Forster Essay Prize, for an essay entitled ‘“My charges about the highways”: Constables and Infrastructure, Sowerby, 1629–1694’.
The following three essays are Highly Commended:
Callum Jamieson (University of Glasgow), ‘Cura nos monet: A Papal Letter of Grace on Papal Judges-Delegate for Hugh du Puiset, Bishop of Durham’.
Christopher Toole (University of Leeds), ‘Dislocation in Coley: An Examination of Rev. Oliver Heywood’s Experience of Religious Persecution after the Restoration, 1660–1666’.
Angus Wallace (University of Leeds), ‘A Community of Consent: Conscientious Objectors on the North Yorkshire Moors and the North East Coast during the First World War’.